Quotes About Priorities

School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?

emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing the machines rather than how to run the machines.

Aha! Mine all mine. My life savings. Look at all that snow there. Very comforting. I've got enough here to buy everything I want in the world, but I'm not going to because I'd sooner have the money.

I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

One rule holds good of most young men—whether rich or poor. They never have money for the necessaries of life, but they have always money to spare for their caprices—an anomaly which finds its explanation in their youth and in the almost frantic eagerness with which youth grasps at pleasure.

We were not rich, but my parents had adjusted their lifestyle to their incomes—and in the end that is a big part of the battle.

Individuals say they are working so hard for the family, but as they work so hard there is less and less time for the family, and family life deteriorates. Somehow, the means prove inconsistent with the stated end. T

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

Darling, we're going to have a baby again,' she would say to her husband. I haven't the time,' Lieutenant Scheisskopf would grumble petulantly. 'Don't you know there's a parade going on?

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

As soon as there was profit, there were people who wanted to make it, more than they wanted to make anything else.

I'd rather have peanut brittle crumbs on my face than flies in my eyes," Havermeyer retorted.

Would you like to see your country lose?' Major Major asked. 'We won't lose. We've got more men, more money and more material. There are ten million men in uniform who could replace me. Some people are getting killed and a lot more are making money and having fun. Let somebody else get killed.' 'But suppose everybody on our side felt that way.' 'Then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way. Wouldn't I?

I don't want to make sacrifices. I want to make dough.

he had grown too old for fun, he no longer had the time.

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself. Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring are undoing us.

We never have time, do we, for all that we don't exactly want to do.

He has made a show of being a devoted family man but his life has been carefully arranged so that he spends as little time with his family as possible.

A career is not a life. Only a family is a life.

Marriage, family. What else is there? You had to grow up. You had to accept it.

Despite all of my moaning and groaning about the romantic disasters that continued to befall me, I knew if I were ever forced to choose I would take a good book over a good relationship any day of the week.